Jesus Freaks

I've been reading up on the Jesus Freaks lately, that Christian revival that was made up mostly of hippies in the 60s and 70s. I don't know how it so completely escaped me at the time, I only began to learn about it after I became a Christian myself, and now I'm finding out more about it. It does seem to have been a genuine move of God, a genuine revival, although there are questions that could be asked about its doctrinal tendencies. How many it brought into the church I don't know yet, but it's very impressive to see the apparent thousands who went to the Southern California beaches to be baptized. One source says Chuck Smith's church baptized 18 thousand over a two year period. I may yet put up some videos that include what is probably the most famous shot of a baptism, showing people crowded along the beach and the stairs down the cliff and along the top of the cliff overlooking the beach, with Chuck Smith and Lonnie Frisbie doing the baptizing, but I found this picture which may or may not be from the same time frame. It's not Smith or Frisbie in the lead here. I hope to post more on this subject.

The Growth of Islam is the Fault of the Church

I get emails from various sources about the threat of Islam, such as a speech by Geert Wilders on how Europe has been changing with its growing Islamic population, which is at odds with a free and democratic society.

I have one thing to say. THIS IS YOUR FAULT, EUROPE. YOU ABANDONED YOUR CHRISTIAN ROOTS AND EVEN NOW THIS SPEECH SAYS NOTHING ABOUT THOSE ROOTS. YOU THINK FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY JUST MAINTAINS ITSELF? No, there is a God, the God Europe grew up on, the God of the Christian religion that was the real reason for western civilization, in Europe and America and wherever else the influence has extended.

Abandon that, allow sin to flourish in your nation -- hey HOLLAND, heads up here!!! -- and you get GOD'S JUDGMENT.

THAT'S WHAT THIS GROWTH OF ISLAM IS -- GOD'S JUDGMENT ON A GODLESS WORLD. Poor Geert Wilders and others like him haven't a clue. BUT CHRISTIANS OUGHT TO AND WE DON'T EITHER!

POLITICS ALONE IS UTTERLY USELESS! THIS IS A SPIRITUAL BATTLE!

WAKE UP CHURCH!

Judgment begins at the house of God, with our tepid worldly "Christianity" which has no ability to fight the spiritual battle this is all about, with our brief and perfuntory prayers, our failure to fast for God's purposes, our horrific record of all the worldly sins such as divorce, which God condemns, and worse than that toppling evangelical "leaders."

The remedy, unless it's too late, is REPENT, REPENT, REPENT!! RETURN TO CHRIST, PRAY OUR HEARTS OUT WITHOUT CEASING THAT GOD WOULD RESTRAIN HIS HAND AGAINST BOTH EUROPE AND AMERICA, PRAY FOR THE CHURCHES, THAT GOD WOULD STRENGTHEN US, INSPIRE US TO GREATER SELF-SACRIFICE FOR HIS CAUSE..

DROP ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE PURSUIT OF GOD'S WILL AND MERCY.

Yeah, it's eventually going to be Sharia law, covered-up women (if we'd been dressing modestly ourselves in a reasonable way this wouldn't happen either), dhimmitude, suicide bombings and beheadings if things continue as they are IN THE CHURCHES.

CONSERVATIVES SHOULD NOT SUPPORT RICK PERRY!

On my Faith's Corner blog a while back I put up some info warning Christians away from supporting Rick Perry's prayer event -- that was from Brannon Howse too as I recall. Howse has been following Perry's record and gives many good reasons why neither Christians nor conservatives should support his run for President, and at this link he's interviewing Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch who has uncovered Rick Perry's pro-Islam position on top of everything else that's wrong with this guy.

There is NOTHING GOOD FOR AMERICA ABOUT RICK PERRY. How depressing that he's the Republican frontrunner at the moment.

Just more malicious insanity about the Middle East

This just makes me tired and sad.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama defended his endorsement of Israel's 1967 boundaries as the basis for a future Palestine, telling America's pro-Israel lobby Sunday that his views reflected longstanding U.S. policy that needed to be stated clearly.

He also said the Jewish state will face growing isolation without "a credible peace process."

This is utterly ridiculous and unfair that Israel is the one given the responsibility for peace when it is and always has been the intransigent Arab nations that make peace impossible -- because they don't WANT peace, they want Israel GONE. Previous administrations have held policies just as unfair -- Road to Peace Plan etc.

Israel more than fairly won her post-1967 borders in a battle against Arab aggressors in which she was the underdog. Why should she give them back? Everything Israel has done has been defensive, everything the Palestinians and Arab states have done has been aggressive against Israel. What kind of malicious insanity keeps making these decisions?

Every time a peace plan has been prepared the Palestinians have refused it, but Israel has always wrongly been held responsible. There could have been a Palestinian state in the region years ago except for Palestinian objections. It's the Palestinians who don't want peace, egged on by the neighboring Arab states who have kept the Palestinians as pawns in their game against Israel for decades. They don't WANT it. They want Israel GONE, period. They will not EVER accept any accommodations made by Israel -- except Israel's complete disappearance.

Malicious insanity at least.

"If there's a controversy, then it's not based in substance," Obama said in a well-received speech. "What I did on Thursday was to say publicly what has long been acknowledged privately. I have done so because we cannot afford to wait another decade, or another two decades, or another three decades, to achieve peace."

Tell it to the PALESTINIANS, not Israel!

Is Bin Laden dead?

Big celebrations some places because supposedly he is dead.

I don't know why but the news simply means nothing to me. I don't know whether to believe it or not. I wasn't even sure whether to believe he was alive in the first place -- oh I suppose he was -- and now I'm not sure I should believe he's dead.

Yahoo news story: Not everyone believes bin Laden really is dead.

Just another of those credibility gaps with this administration I suppose. Questions come to mind. Why did they bury him at sea, and so soon too? Now that I think about it, that fact alone is enough to raise questions in my mind. Knowing the Holocaust would be denied, Eisenhower made sure there were plenty of photographic records for evidence. Knowing that the death of Osama needs extraordinary proof, this administration buries his body at sea? Something doesn't compute here.

Well, anything's possible. He could be dead, or not. I don't trust anything I hear from this administration any more. Same as with the birth certificate flap, they seem to go out of their way to confuse things rather than clear things up.

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Later: The reports are consistent enough to convince me they probably did get him. Very strange, I don't really care.

Keep thinking as I see stories on aspects of the raid that I'll start to care one way or another. So far not. Don't know why. Maybe it just hasn't sunk in.

Sigh. More evidence of fraud on Obama's birth certificate

I've encountered some pretty adamant opinion that the newly offered long firm birth certificate really is authentic, that "Kenya, East Africa" WAS used back in 1961, that others with birth certificates from the same year ALSO have that hospital name on theirs, that "African" was the way they designated race in Hawaii even if it isn't correct. Well, if all that is true, fine, I'd be glad to have all this put to rest finally.

But it doesn't seem to be going away. There are still those who say it's a fake, and even an obvious fake, that anyone who really knows Photoshop KNOWS it's a fake. And some of the things said got me to look more closely at the document myself. One thing was that the letters and numbers don't even all match, though they would have if the document had all been typed on the same typewriter, as would of course normally have been the case in 1961.

So I took a little more careful look and it does seem that there are odd mismatches. Click on the image I've reproduced below to check it out for yourself. (By the way, I only recently discovered that it's possible to zoom in on a screen image -- the option is on the tool bar at the lower right hand corner of my screen. Of course I'm very low tech and everybody else may know this already, but if not, you should know that you can use that feature to look VERY closely at this document).

For instance, compare the capital "A" in "African" with the one in "Africa" on the next line. In "African" the A is flush with the f next to it; in "Africa" it's higher than the f. Typewriter letters always hit the page at the same level. If one key was bent it was always bent, it didn't sometimes hit level and sometimes not.

Same thing with the capital "K." In "Kenya" and "Kalanianaole" it's on the same level as the letter to its right. In "Kapiolani" it's a tad higher and a bit further left from the "a." In "Kansas" it is MUCH higher than the "a" and fainter too, as if the letter hadn't struck the page evenly. That happened with old typewriters but if it happened once it happened every time the letter was struck and that's not the case in this document. Typewriters don't behave that way and they didn't have word processing in 1961.

Also check out the "R" in "BARACK," both the father Barack and the son Barack. No match. Also compare the "O" in "Oahu" with the "O" in "Obama." No match.

From what I've heard the signs of fraud in this document go much beyond these few observations, and I'm not going to take any more time right now ferreting it out myself. In fact the fraud is so obvious it appears to be intentional. No respect for the American citizen, no respect for the office of President, no respect for the Constitution, let's just lead them all around the mulberry bush. We still don't know where Obama was born but by now we ought to know that the man is playing a game of evasion and deceit which makes it very probable that he was not born in this country.

THE LYING LEFTIST MEDIA (Obama Birth Certificate) and the accusation of racism

Aren't there some decent leftists who can't tolerate this stuff either? There must be some out there.

Just the usual. An Associated Press write-up on the political impact of the issue of where Obama was born, that hasn't the decency or honesty to explain why there is a question, just spins out the leftist view of it. Read this piece of bald-faced biased "reporting:"

In recent days several prominent Republicans have distanced themselves, with varying degrees of emphasis, from the false claim that Obama was born in a foreign country.

Right, JUST FLATLY CALL IT a "false claim" which is the leftist view so all who suspect it may be true that he was born in a foreign country are guilty of supporting a claim that is KNOWN to be false.

I'm so glad there is going to be a Judgment Day where liars get their comeuppance. These reporters don't even make a pretense any more of neutrality and objectivity. The American left both in government and in the media is now just a bunch of Chicago thug politicos who don't care how they win.

Obama's birth certificate indicates he was born in Hawaii in 1961.

If that were really an indisputably authentic birth certificate there wouldn't be these questions, but these liars don't care why there are questions, they just want to make it look like there is no such thing as a legitimate question.

IF THAT IS HIS "BIRTH CERTIFICATE" SO IS THE ONE FROM KENYA, AND THE ONE FROM KENYA LOOKS WAY MORE AUTHENTIC.

I cover all this in the blog post down the page.

Right, there is no more America, we're just another banana republic ruled by thugs so why am I going on about this anyway?

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Wed. April 27.

Sigh. So today he supposedly produces the long form birth certificate -- while smearing people who raised legitimate questions about why he didn't produce it long ago, what was he spending all that money on and so on.

Nevertheless, at first I was relieved: Finally, it's over.

Then legitimate questions came up about that document too. How come the hospital is given a name that it didn't have until 1978 if this certificate is really from 1961? The hospital had existed since the 1890s but it was called something else before 1978. I googled the name on the certificate and that information is given at Wikipedia.

And how come Obama's father's race is put down as "African" when that is not a race and it was standard in 1961 to put "Negro" for a black father?

There's no end to the fishiness. We ARE a banana republic run by thugs.

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Another piece of slimy propaganda being put out by the Left is that the only reason anyone is suspicious of Obama's birthplace is that they are racist. Doesn't matter how obvious the problems are with the evidence supplied, they are going to call it racism. The evil just doesn't stop these days.

Just for the record I'd take Alan Keyes as President any day, and Allen West is looking awfully good too. So much for racism in my questioning Obama's credentials.